Caution: This newsletter accommodates all spoilers for Ultimate Delusion 7 Rebirth and Ultimate Delusion 7. Ultimate Delusion 7 Rebirth continues the paintings of its predecessor, this means that that it isn’t just a remake of the 1997 vintage with fashionable graphics and video games, as smartly. they modify the tale so much. The great factor is, Rebirth isn't as giant as Ultimate Delusion 7 Remake, and maximum of its time is faithfully updating your reminiscences. However the nearer you get to the tip, the extra intense the writing turns into. There are seven main adjustments forward, which naturally manner spoilers for Ultimate Delusion 7 Rebirth and the unique recreation. Learn at your individual tempo! The Gi Created Black Materia In Ultimate Delusion 7, Black Materia is a mysterious, historical magical methodology that may summon a meteor, an area rock that may ruin planets. Little or no is understood about its origins, however its damaging powers are published in a mural when a birthday party visits the Temple of the Ancients. Reincarnation additionally takes Black Materia under consideration, giving it an foundation tale. It used to be created by means of the Gi, an immortal tribe that oversees the tunnels underneath Cosmo Canyon. Within the new sequel to Rebirth, the chief of the tribe, Gi Nattak, takes you to his village, the place it’s published that the Gi had been dwelling in an volatile purgatory for hundreds of years. On the earth of Ultimate Delusion 7, your soul is created by means of the Lifestream and returns whilst you die. Sadly for them, Gi used to be no longer born within the Lifestream. It isn’t defined the place they got here from, however their alien life manner they can not go back to the Lifestream and are subsequently trapped as ghosts perpetually. As a way to loose them from their curse, the Gi created materia that became black “with ache and struggling”. They deliberate to make use of it to summon a meteor that will ruin themselves and the arena that captured them. In brief: not anything is healthier than the everlasting agony of dying. Prior to Gi may use the Black Materia, Aerith's oldsters – Cetra – abducted and locked her within the Temple of the Ancients. Gi Nattak asks Cloud and his pals to get the Black Materia for him, and whilst he concurs to his request, he handiest does so to be able to keep away from Gi and Sephiroth. Persona Triggers Utterly Modified Rebirth brings 4 new characters to the birthday party: Yuffie, Cait Sith, Cid Highwind, and Vincent Valentine. If you happen to performed the unique, handiest Cait Sith shall be offered as you take into accout. This time, Yuffie wasn't simply randomly discovered wandering the jungle of the arena. As a substitute, he washes up on a seaside in Junon Harbor, and it's his first time instead of the CPR scenes with Pricilla from the primary recreation. Yuffie travels to Junon with the goal of killing Rufus Shinra, and her strive to take action happens as a part of Rufus's military. Cid additionally meets in some other a part of the arena. Within the authentic recreation he used to be taken to his house in Rocket The town, the place a battle with Shinra becomes a perilous get away. However in Rebirth the birthday party doesn't move to Rocket The town. As a substitute, Cid is portrayed as a pilot. Referred to as by means of sending a smoke sign at Gongaga airport, Cid's first activity is to run a course, flying you from position to position in a Tiny Bronco. Later, he promised to birthday party after revealing that he had met Aerith's organic mom, Ifalna. Devastated after studying of her dying, Cid concurs to assist Aerith by any means she will. In any case we have now Vincent, who stays locked within the basement of the Shinra Mansion, however this time he meets when the birthday party is searching for a pc station that may disclose him. the web site of the Temple of the Ancients. Vincent concurs to assist, but if the crowd comes throughout Professor Hojo's previous Reunion apparatus, he forces his means in to prevent them. And by means of compelled, I imply he transforms into the Galian Beast, the werewolf-like monster that used to be his Prohibit Wreck within the first recreation. Defeated, Vincent comes to a decision to enroll in the birthday party as a result of his previous dating with Sephiroth and Shinra. Cloud Tries to Kill Tifa on the Gongaga Reactor All over the sport, a imaginative and prescient of Sephiroth tries to persuade Cloud that Tifa is an impostor. This all culminates within the Gongaga Reactor the place a tormented Cloud shoots Tifa, believing it to be a manifestation of Jenova. He tries to kill her, however Tifa is in a position to run backwards and get away his sword. Whilst Tifa survives Cloud's strive on her lifestyles, she as an alternative falls right into a liquid sea of mako. He’s then swallowed by means of Zida, one of the crucial international's whale-like protectors. Trapped within the massive Weapon like materia, they watch because it swims throughout the Lifestream. At the adventure he encounters visions from the previous, together with reminiscences of his youth dialog with Cloud when he promised to save lots of him. All of that is similar to the sequence of the primary recreation, nevertheless it took place later when Cloud used to be getting better from Mideel. The collection ends with Tifa looking at a imaginative and prescient of Sephiroth main Cloud clear of her, foreshadowing how the commoner can use her spouse. The Weapon in the end reappears within the Gongaga Reactor and, surrounded by means of Whispers, takes out Tifa. The theory is that, similar to when Barret used to be 'killed' and resurrected by means of Whispers in Ultimate Delusion 7 Remake, this isn’t Tifa's time to head but. Aerith (and Crimson XIII) Knew Her Destiny Within the authentic Ultimate Delusion 7, Aerith used to be ignorant of the dying that awaited her within the Forgotten Capital. However in Ultimate Delusion 7 Remake, it used to be stated that Aerith can see the longer term. Reincarnation reinforces this, revealing that Crimson XIII additionally had the power to look the longer term, too (if you’re taking him at the Gold Saucer date.) into the longer term. However how can Aerith and Crimson XIII see the longer term, and why can't they now? The solution appears to be Aerith's White Materia. Within the authentic video games this particular orb used to be used to summon a Saint, a protecting spell that would give protection to all of the international. In Rebirth, Crimson XIII explains that materia is made up of data and reminiscence, and so it seems that that the White Materia is a vessel for Aerith's imaginative and prescient of the longer term. Crimson XIII can have been ready to go into the imaginative and prescient, possibly because of the time he spent at the religious adventure of Cosmo Canyon. The issue is that with the phenomenon of Rebirth the Natural White is now not natural – it’s colorless and 'empty'. The reminiscences are long past, and so is his skill to name the Saint. The reminiscences had been taken by means of Whispers. Final yr, Sq. Enix showed that each time the Whispers touched Aerith within the Remake, they stole some other reminiscence. By the point the Whisper Harbinger used to be defeated, all of his reminiscences of the longer term were erased, leaving him without a sense of his long run. who has his paintings White Materia. He tells her “No matter occurs, don't blame your self,” appearing that this Aerith additionally is aware of about her long run as a result of her mom. He offers the orb to Cloud and returns him to his fact, permitting him to reconnect together with his Aerith and the energetic White Materia, reminiscences of the longer term, and the ability to summon the Saint. Sephiroth Desires Range, No longer Simply Existence Sephiroth's objective within the authentic recreation used to be to ascend to godhood via taking the Lifestream. Even though he turns out in a position to ascend to heaven within the remake trilogy, Rebirth unearths that his grand plan additionally comes to defeating more than a few other people via Reunion. Reunification isn’t one thing new for lovers of Ultimate Delusion 7, however within the first recreation they discussed the reunification of Jenova's cells. In Rebirth, it refers back to the Sephiroth that organizes the interplay of various worlds or realities. They name this 'homecoming', and when it begins they are saying their becoming a member of is a “merging of worlds and concepts.” It sort of feels, then, that the good amassing of each the truth and the ideas of those that reside inside them is very important to all of the order of the Sephiroth. And because he nonetheless needs the Black Materia, it sort of feels transparent that mass destruction of no longer only one international however many is on his bucket record…Zack and Aerith Are Nonetheless Alive, Sorta Within the authentic Ultimate Delusion 7, Aerith used to be killed by means of Sephiroth within the Forgotten Capital. Then again, the ultimate scene presentations that his spirit nonetheless lives within the Lifestream, and that he used to be ready to give protection to the arena from the meteor from there. This concept is preserved within the Renaissance, however it’s offered in an overly other means. Aerith nonetheless dies from Sephiroth's sword, however her religious shape stays and is in a position to be in contact immediately with Cloud – even though unfortunately the remainder of the crowd is ignorant of her presence. Within the ultimate cutscene, Aerith guarantees Cloud that she is going to forestall the meteor – a transparent nod to the finishing of the unique recreation. Whilst Aerith's destiny is a bit other from the model of the unique recreation, what we see of Zack could be very other. He died to start with, in fact, however the advent of more than one realities within the remake trilogy implies that Zack nonetheless lives in several worlds. We see a number of other variations of Zack via Reincarnation in several worlds than the 'major' fact that our heroes reside in. On the finish of the sport, Zack who’s preventing the overall fight thinks about what Sephiroth informed him: the worlds are hooked up by means of sphere. He wonders if which means that the worlds can also be united once more. The implication – or hope – is that Zack's fact will merge into a global the place he can reside fortunately with different variations of Aerith and Cloud, since the true ones appear to be very ill. Glenn Lodbrok and Shinra vs. Wutai Struggle The primary Ultimate Delusion 7 in short showed that Yuffie's area of Wutai used to be at battle with Shinra. The Remake trilogy has grown since then, and turns into the second one installment in Rebirth. There’s these days a non-combat settlement between Wutai and Shinra, however Glenn Lodbrok – an ex-Soldier who left Wutai – is making an attempt to begin a battle and ruin each Shinra and Midgar. In a public speech he claims that Shinra killed Wutai infantrymen – which he did to extend tensions – and he additionally lies that it used to be noticed within the corporate. In any case, it’s published that Glenn is in truth Sephiroth's puppet, and that his try to keep an eye on the Shinra vs. Wutai is a option to confuse Rufus. Sefirot does no longer say obviously why he’s doing this, however he says “our promised land shall be fulfilled”. In response to this, it’s cheap to suppose that he is making an attempt to distract Rufus from his objective of finding the Promised Land. Within the authentic Ultimate Delusion 7, Sephiroth sought out the Promised Land because it used to be a spot the place he may soak up maximum of Mako's power which used to be required to make use of Black Materia and solid Meteor. In the meantime, the overdue President Shinra hopes to seek out it and use its energy to construct Neo Midgar. We all know the Rebirth model of Rufus nonetheless hopes to complete his father's paintings, and it is smart that this model of Sephiroth nonetheless wishes energy. Due to this fact, if Rufus is distracted by means of the fight with Wutai, then Sephiroth can simply defeat him within the race to the Promised Land. Matt Purslow is IGN's UK Information and Options Editor.